For more and more people these days, our identities are centered online. Whether you have a company, a blog, or just a Facebook page, most of us have some sort of online presence. The problem arises, however, when we’ve got more than one space online where we’re present. And that’s true for a huge, and [...]
Analyse your hard disk and stop wasting space
Your hard disk space may seem increasingly small but you may not be aware what is taking the space. I, for example, subscribed to dozens of podcasts but naively overlooked them when trying to clear space. In fact, they took up 5GB of space! Whilst disk space is no longer seen as a problem, considering [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Viper Plagiarism Scanner
Viper is a free – after registration – plagiarism scanner for the Windows operating system. It compares selected local documents against Internet findings, previously submitted documents and local document repositories and displays its results to the user in the end. The developers of the plagiarism scanner are not revealing lots of information about the process [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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File And Folder Unlocker
One of the first software programs that gets installed on many computer systems is the excellent Unlocker program. Unlocker integrates itself into the Windows right-click context menu. It can be used to unlock files and folders that are locked by the operating system or a process. Messages like “Cannot delete file: It is being used [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Automatically Identify Running Processes
Assassin SE is a software program for that will scan, identify and rate all running processes on a computer system running Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista. The program will automatically scan all running processes during startup and display information about them in a table. Among the information provided are the name, [...]
PagePlus: A better and cheaper DTP program than Publisher
99% of home users will use Microsoft Publisher as their desktop publisher but will be unaware of a free superior package offered by Serif. PagePlus is a ‘budget’ desktop publishing suite published by Serif. The latest version (PagePlus X3) costs £80 but an older version, PagePlus SE, is offered free-of-charge. PagePlus SE contains many different [...]
KompoZer, a free, open-source and half-decent WYSIWYG web editor
Dreamweaver and Frontpage are no doubt the most popular WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) HTML editors but carry a pretty large pricetag, with Dreamweaver costing about £500! Naturally, neither work under Linux either! KompoZer is a free, open-source and cross-platform WYSIWYG editor which should fill the needs of any home user. Whilst KompoZer has not been updated since [...]
Dressing your Mac up for Christmas
Whilst I realise this website has a Linux and Windows-focus, I am (for better or for worse) a OS X user. As Christmas approaches, houses and offices are often adorned with decorations and there is no reason a Mac can’t be too. In Northern England, we have been ‘fortunate’ enough to have had quite a [...]
Best free (and open-source) FPS games
Whilst first person shooters are mainly confined to the console, several good FPS games are available for PC. I’m nothing more than a casual gamer but I enjoy shooters and I was surprised by the sheer number available. I use a Mac, so this article will primarily focus on cross-platform shooters. AssaultCube AssaultCube is a [...]